Editorial | The private sector is thriving because the public health sector has for too long been crippled by bad management, corruption, lack of empathy – and most importantly – poor direction from the top. Do you agree?
The private sector is thriving because the public health sector has for too long been crippled by bad management, corruption, lack of empathy – and most importantly – poor direction from the top.
The poor have been failed by the very people who now want to plunge the private health sector into the same state of dysfunction. In hyping the NHI after the bill’s passing, Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla crowed that “it will ensure that everyone is entitled to free healthcare when they need it, and there will be no fees charged at the facility because the fund will cover the costs of care”.This is fantasy.
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